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  • June 9, 2004 at 5:58 pm in reply to: Interesting pics of the Ju 287 #1805261
    mmitch
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    I wonder what the noise level was like in the cockpit. 🙂
    mmitch.

    June 8, 2004 at 8:44 pm in reply to: Pic of the day #695312
    mmitch
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    That could be LHR 50 years ago.
    mmitch.

    June 7, 2004 at 2:52 pm in reply to: DX D Day photos #1809211
    mmitch
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    One of the jets in the D-Day flypast (French Mirage?) had ‘invasion strips’ on it. 🙂

    mmitch.

    June 7, 2004 at 2:46 pm in reply to: Normandy 'Horsa' #1809226
    mmitch
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    A remark made on the TV coverage was that “It took the French to build one”
    Bit unfair as the Glider Pilot Assoc. are building one over here to go with a Dakota donated by Air Atlantic. When its finished it will be offered to a museum. See:- http://www.assaultgliderproject.co.uk/
    They are also building a cockpit and parts for a museum in the US.
    mmitch.

    June 6, 2004 at 6:42 pm in reply to: Hurricane down a Duxford 06/06/04 #1810983
    mmitch
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    Hopefully, if I get this right, this was the result of PA474’s work yesterday afternoon…

    Watching everything on TV this weekend, the aviation moment had to be the shot out of the Lancs bomb bay as she dropped that million poppies behind the veterans convoy.
    mmitch.

    June 4, 2004 at 4:42 pm in reply to: Spitfire over York #1814000
    mmitch
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    BBMF Spitfire booked for Linton (on Ouse?) today. See:- http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/displaydates.html
    mmitch.

    June 4, 2004 at 11:49 am in reply to: Worlds Most Expensive Perch! #1814329
    mmitch
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    Soft bird strike. 🙂
    mmitch.

    June 4, 2004 at 11:43 am in reply to: What was D-Day all about? #1814343
    mmitch
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    All this week in the ‘Daily Mail’ it has been reproducing its 1944 editions from D-Day onwards. It is remarkable the amount of information they were allowed to give even so few days after the event. There are several mentions of rocket firing aircraft taking out ‘radio location stations’ to enable the landings to go ahead undetected. Fleet spotter aircraft calling HMS Warspite’s gunfire onto targets miles inland giving the battleships position as 1 1/2 miles off shore. Todays edition reports on Wg.C Johnny Johnson leading his Spitfire wing to land on an airstrip in Normandy for the first time. I’m sure there are mistakes (made in the heat of battle) but it does give a remarkable view of the times. I’m sure other papers are doing something similar but if you get the chance just sit and read ALL the news of those times.
    mmitch.

    June 4, 2004 at 11:22 am in reply to: Sunderlands to the UK #1814360
    mmitch
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    I can remember on an early visit to Duxford seeing it after delivery, sectioned length wise about waterline level and seperated by railway sleepers! Excellent epic restoration on a par with the Avro York.
    mmitch.

    June 1, 2004 at 9:16 pm in reply to: What was D-Day all about? #1819411
    mmitch
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    Bletchley Park the former code breaker centre in the UK us now an excellent museum. On their website they have a month by month summary of their achieves. Check the April and May ones for an insight into the intelligence
    gathered up to D Day.
    http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/ and click on history.
    mmitch.

    May 25, 2004 at 9:14 am in reply to: Senior Display Pilots #1830245
    mmitch
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    The OFMC, HFL and TFC amongst others do have potted bios of (some of) their pilots on their websites.
    mmitch.

    May 23, 2004 at 11:20 am in reply to: Stampe Fly-inn and Chimpmeet pics: #1831040
    mmitch
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    Nice photos Stieglitz, of an interesting event. I haven’t seen a closed cockpit Stampe before. Looks like the ‘Thruxton Jackroo’ conversion done to some Tiger Moths post war. Does it have a different variant (number or letters)?
    Thanks, mmitch.

    May 22, 2004 at 7:32 pm in reply to: Wartime Flights to Switzerland #1831296
    mmitch
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    The most well known activity that BOAC performed was the ‘ball bearing runs’ Britain managed to get the largest share of Sweden’s production. A Mosquito although unarmed was very fast and usually managed to out run German fighters. One passenger could be accommodated in the bomb bay on a bed with oxygen and intercom. There was a recent article in A***plane about this route.
    mmitch.

    May 20, 2004 at 9:17 am in reply to: Gannet T5 #1552639
    mmitch
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    When the original post on this forum announced that the Gannet had been bought, it was said that it would be based at North Weald. Kennet Aviation’s acquisition from Chatham would also be based there. Does anyone know if this is still the plan?
    mmitch.

    May 19, 2004 at 10:05 pm in reply to: Shuttleworth Sunset Display – This Saturday #1552744
    mmitch
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    Very good photos Bambi851, pop over and say hello next show – we’re the loud bunch who are usually pointing at cones and making jokes about tweed.

    Rob

    That’s why I moved away a bit so I could hear the engines. 🙂
    It was great to meet some famous faces. I expect ‘We’ll meet again’ around Legends.
    mmitch.

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